1 Chronicles 15:2-15

2Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the Lord has chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister before him forever.”

3David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring the ark of the Lord to the place he had prepared for it.

4Then he gathered together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites:

5From the Kohathites, Uriel the leader and 120 of his relatives;

6from the Merarites, Asaiah the leader and 220 of his relatives;

7from the Gershomites, Joel the leader and 130 of his relatives;

8from the Elizaphanites, Shemaiah the leader and 200 of his relatives;

9from the Hebronites, Eliel the leader and 80 of his relatives;

10from the Uzzielites, Amminadab the leader and 112 of his relatives.

11David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.

12He said to them, “You are the heads of the Levite families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.

13For the Lord our God burst out in anger against us because you Levites were not with us the first time, for we didn’t inquire of him about the proper procedures.”

14So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.

15Then the Levites carried the ark of God the way Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord: on their shoulders with the poles.